Differential Geometry, Topology and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

    New York University

    Differential Geometry, Topology and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

    In the Spring semester of 2006, the seminar meets on Fridays at 11:00 a.m., in room 813 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York.
    Here is a provisional list of speakers. Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

  • February 17: Jean-Michel Bismut (Universite Paris-Sud)
    Title of talk: The hypoelliptic torsion

  • February 24: Mikhael Gromov (NYU-Courant)
    Title of talk: Lower bounds on the topology of singularities of smooth maps

  • March 3: Peter Ozsvath (Columbia)
    Title of talk: Holomorphic disks and link invariants

  • March 10: Dror Varolin (Stony Brook) at 10:00 am
    Title of talk: Non-negative Hermitian Polynomials
    Please note the change of time of our seminar for this particular day !

  • March 24: Bruce Kleiner (Yale)
    Title of talk: Bi-Lipschitz embedding in Banach spaces, Rademacher-type theorems, and functions of bounded variation

  • March 31: Anatoly Libgober (UIC)
    Title of talk: Higher elliptic genera

  • April 7: Double header:
    (1) Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia) @ 11:00 am
    Title of talk: Link homology and Soergel bimodules
    (2) Chris Woodward (Rutgers) @ 2:00 pm
    Title of talk: Floer field theory for tangles

  • April 28: Triple header:
    (1) Mark Andrea de Cataldo (Stony Brook) @ 11:00 am
    Title of talk: The Hodge theory of algebraic maps
    (2) Greg Friedman (Vanderbilt) @ 2:00 pm
    Title of talk: Extending Poincare Duality to Homotopically Stratified Spaces
    (3) Soren Galatius (Stanford) @ 4:00 pm
    Title of talk: Stable Homology of Aut(F_n)